List of African American authors

Author of The Color Purple, Alice studied abroad in Kenya and Uganda through Experiment in International Living. She is a well-known American author, poet, and activist whose work focuses on racial equality.

2. Marian Wright Edelman (1939 - )

Marian Wright Edelman

Marian Wright Edelman is an American activist for the rights of children and the president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund. Marian studied abroad in 1958-59 in both France and Switzerland after she received the Merrill Scholarship.

3. James Meredith (1933 - )

James Meredith

James Meredith, U.S. civil rights activist and the first African-American student admitted to the University of Mississippi; once he graduated, he enrolled in a program at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria to further study political science.

4. Sister Souljah (1964 - )

Sister Souljah

Sister Souljah is an American hip hop-generation author, activist, recording artist, and film producer, made famous during the Clinton-era. While studying at Cornell, she studied abroad at the University of Salamanca in Spain for a semester.

5. Katherine Dunham (1909 - 2006)

Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham wore many hats. She was a dancer, choreographer, and company director, as well as an author, educator, and social activist. While studying at the University of Chicago, she was awarded a travel fellowship that financed a study abroad trip to the Caribbean.

6. Myron Rolle (1986 - )

Myron Rolle

Myron Rolle is a Bahamian-American former football safety who played for the Tennessee Titans. While playing football in college at Florida State, he was named a Rhodes Scholar and afforded the opportunity to study medical anthropology in Oxford, England in 2009 - 2010.

7. Shirley Chisholm (1924 - 2005)

Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American woman elected to Congress. She's also the youngest study abroad'er of the batch: at age three, she moved to Barbados to live with her grandmother and attend private school.

8. Barbara Chase-Riboud (1939 - )

Barbara Chase-Riboud

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Barbara Chase-Riboud is a world famous visual artist and multiple award-winning poet. She studied for a year in Italy at the American Academy in Rome after applying for and receiving the John Hay Whitney fellowship.

9. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1950 - )

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, and writer. Most notably, he was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, which allowed him to pursue his PhD in English literature abroad at Cambridge. He is currently the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, author of several books, and the writer and producer of the PBS series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.

10. Augusta Savage (1892 - 1962)

Augusta Savage

Born in Green Cove Springs, Florida, Augusta Savage became an important figure during the Harlem Renaissance. She's best known for her sculpting and her life's work on promoting equal rights for African Americans in the arts. In 1929, Savage studied sculpting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France.

11. Palmer C. Hayden (1890 - 1973)

Palmer C. Hayden

Virginian born Palmer C. Hayden was an American painter whose artworks focused on depicting the African American way of life. He couldn't get enough of France: Palmer studied art history in Paris for nearly 5 years!

12. Russell Hornsby (1974 - )

Russell Hornsby

Probably best known for his role as Hank Griffin on the NBC series Grimm, Russell Hornsby is an American theater, television, and film actor. As a study-abroader, he continued his post-graduate studies at Oxford's British Academy of Dramatic Arts in the U.K. He also rocks because he was born in Oakland, California!

13. Aaron Douglas (1898 - 1979)

Aaron Douglas

African-American painter Aaron Douglas studied abroad in Paris at the Academie Scandinave in the 1930's after he graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1922. He's most well known for his major contributions to the Harlem Renaissance and his painting techniques often echo his studies in France.

14. Paul Leroy Robeson (1898 - 1976)

Paul Leroy Robeson

Paul Leroy Robeson was an American singer and actor who became an active player in the Civil Rights Movement. While in college, he played football and was involved in theater - leading him to study abroad in England in the 1920s.

15. James W. Compton

James W. Compton

James W. Compton was both the president and CEO of the Chicago Urban League for nearly 30 years! His studies led him to study abroad in Russia on a US-Soviet cultural exchange program in the 1950s. He also studied in Grenoble.

16. Ralph Bunche (1903 - 1971)

Ralph Bunche

Ralph Bunche was a political scientist, academic, and diplomat - as well as the first African American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation in Palestine. His academic career led him to study abroad in both London, England and Cape Town, South Africa, where he conducted postdoctoral research.

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This is a list of African American authors and writers, all of whom are considered part of African American literature.
Note: Consult Who is African American? to gain a better sense as to who can be listed as an African American writer.